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Friday, October 3, 2014

Well, things change, time moves on, Year 4 children become Year 5 children. The classes that made this wonderful blog and all that's in it have gone on to new teachers, new lessons and they have a new blog for Year 5.

And there's a new Year 4 now. They have their own blog too, though we often look to this one for inspiration.

Thank you to everyone who contributed, or visited, or commented on this one. It will stay here as a record of a fantastic year!

Saturday, August 9, 2014

I went to Alsace not long ago and I saw all my cousins! I went to "la montagne des singes" mountain of monkeys and I saw loads of monkeys that looked like Sisi! Visitors get some popcorn, then they hold out the popcorn and the monkeys would grab it! One day I think that monkeys are going to evolve into humans. I also went watching wild animals with my uncle who is a game keeper.
We saw:

Nine deers

Six rabbits

Two hares

Two dogs

One cat

( The cat and the dog aren't important )

I went to Europa Park.

Don't worry if you don't know what it means its German ( Ask Luis if you want to know what it means ).

We did so many attractions. My favourite was probably the wodan and euorosat ( That's German too, just ask Luis what it means ).

I had a massive party with my uncles and aunties and cousins and we celebrated my birthday there!

If you didn't know my birthday is on the twelfth of August.

I also went to la volerie des aigles. There were eagles flying all over the place and one of them flew just above my head! We also went to le Chateau d'Andlau and another one in Barr.

Thursday, July 3, 2014

When
I got home
Cheeky was very excited. I thought it might be good to first introduce him to Zebedy
the Zebra because he comes from the same factory and they’re the same size. As Cheeky
is a monkey I decided they should have some sort of

“bouncy fun
place.”It worked really well because

when I
pulled it it would bounce up because of the

elastic bands. Then, I thought that they
might get lost in my bed so I both made them a mini-bedroom.

First,I noticed
that Cheeky’s bed-room was too small so, I made
one a bit like Zebedy’s. I wonder what I’m going to do next….

Saturday, June 28, 2014

There was a noise of running hooves as alpacas started crowding towards the King's palace. Everyone was chattering excitedly as they bustled towards the construction. There were news about the King summoning an alpaca. The heroic type of course. There had been a lot of kidnappings in Alpaconti lately, the supercontinent that they lived on. There has hardly been any in the last few thousand centuries. So, every one of the alpacas were talking about it. The palace was a huge structure nearly entirely made out of quartz blocks. A summoning was a special occasion because it had only happened twice. Then, everyone fell silent as the King suddenly came out of the palace and onto the balcony. He looked at the alpacas below.

A butler walked up to him and gave him an enchanted sword named Ashrune. Then, he stabbed the sword in to the ground. Next, he muttered some ancient spells and after a few minutes, a blinding light flashed into the sky and the alpacas gasped. Something was falling from the sky! Everyone started panicking.

"Do not worry, citizens!" he shouted. "I will use a spell to stop it from getting hurt."

And that was what he did. The falling thing was now falling much slower than before so it was like it was floationg to the King's balcony.

The 'thing' was in fact, a little male alpaca with a headband that read'Satoshi'. He was still asleep and didn't seem to notice that he, before, was falling from about 500 metres. While he was sleeping, he looked more like a small sheep than an alpaca.

(´〜｀*) zzzZZZZZZZZZZZ

'He looks rather cute, to be honest.' thought the King. 'He also looks like Shoop Sheep the Cotton Ball'.

He sent for his butler to drag the sleeping Satoshi into a spare guest room.

4 hours later...
Satoshi suddenly woke up. He had woken up from a strange dream of alpacas. There was a king alpaca and it stuck a sword and then he started falling out of the sky. It was the weirdest dream he had in years! Yet while he was awake, he could still see them! Was he going CRAZY??? No he couldn't be...
Then the truth suddenly dawned to Satoshi... he had become analpaca.....
"AAAAHHHH!!!"

In Year 4 this week we've returned to Hugh Lupton's book of Tales of Wisdom and Wonder. We particularly liked a story called The Blind Man and the Hunter. You can read it with your eyes here or listen with your ears to Hugh Lupton telling it here.

We talked about general statements you could make about the blind man, sentences with words like always, often, never, and sometimes. Here's some that we wrote: